Luke’s words are, “John have I beheaded: who is he of whom I hear such things? [Luke 9:9] As Luke has thus represented Herod as in doubt, we must understand rather that he was afterwards convinced of that which was commonly said — or we must take what he here says to his servants as expressing a doubt — for they admit of either of these acceptations.
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